I'm kind of confused by that pick, as well. I guess Broyles is coming off knee surgery and Burleson probably doesn't have too many seasons left in him, so maybe it's a "this will pay off in a couple years when Broyles fully recovers and Burleson is retiring" kind of thing. But I'm not a big fan of pulling that move in the 2nd round.

Broyles was a beast before he got hurt, considered by some to be even better than Justin Blackmon. Mayhew was saying that the Lions feel they can grrom Broyles along and wait until he fully recovers considering the guys they have now.

I also wanted defense but the more the explain it to me the more this pick makes sense. Especially considering who the Lions were targeting and if any were available around then. Remember we have no idea what management is thinking and where they have players rated.

Broyles could be an excellent compliment to Megatron. I liked flashes of what Ive seen from Titus Young last year too. Seems like the pass game should be set. They focused on defense rounds 3 and back.

In a guy who will be the second best at his position, where you're paying well over the position value. I believe in best available, but there are guys of similar value. He had to be ranked A LOT higher than everyone else, which I have a hard time believing considering he's coming off knee surgery. You also have to wonder if they couldn't get him in the 3rd. The rest of their defense picks are then back-ups or special teasers.

But at least the Skins made sure it wasn't close to the worst pick in the draft.

Especially Molk, because we could use someone to push and/or overtake our current starter. But we need a receiver too, so why not Junior (although I think he'd have to fall to the 6th for the Broncos.)

I'm all for teasing MSU and Cousins and everything, but in reality I think he's going to be a great pick-up for somebody. I'm not all that surprised he's still available, but I think he's better than a 4th rounder, so someone's going to get some value with him.

He played in an offense that was run first and didn't rely on his QB skills as a primary weapon. The future (is now) of the NFL is pass first offenses that take advantage of the rules preventing defensive backs from touching WRs. Cousins makes a few rosters but is out of the league in 3 years selling insurance in Holland or EL.

Could that be the result of teams loading the box to stop the run and Cousins taking advantage of play action over top.

Don't get me wrong he was a good college QB. His record speaks for itself but he still makes boneheaded decisions. Maybe he is smart enough and he can learn a playbook quickly and that will keep him on rosters but I don't expect him to get more than 16 starts in his career

MSU definitely threw the ball a good deal, but based on my anecdotal recollections of the team, lots of those passes were short screens and dump-offs to backs and WRs. In many instances, they were just replacement runs.

Again, I think Cousins had a good college career, but the one thing we've seen with him is that when pressure comes, he has trouble getting the ball down the field to his receivers in tight windows. He's a better passer than Denard and will be a competent player in the pros, but the story that sprung up surrounding him (he's a late-round QB who will become a star because he's a "winner" and "is a great guy") ignores the his limitations that were expressed consistently during his playing career.

I agree that MSU was not as run oriented as many believe, but I don't think Cousins was the one that propelled that offense. In fact, if you look at their wr before next season, it was outstanding. Treadwell (now gone) was off coord and wrs coach and he did a tremendous job at developing guys that normally wouldn't make it as wrs into nfl talent (blair white).

Many of Cousins' passes were to completely wide open guys and he had a lot more jump balls than people think.

Uh, that's my line, & it's "Spuck Farty", but I like your spirit....... Also; ESPN's talking heads are REALLY EXCITED about Couplings getting drafted in the 4th round, by a team that just drafted the Best Player In the Draft, whom also happens to be a QB, & the teams owner is the easts answer to William Clay Ford... And I'm serious, THEY ARE EXCITED!!!! (???)

Congrats to Kirk for being drafted, but I think that's an awful place for him to go. He's not going to get a chance to play for a few years at earliest as the Redskins let RGIII develop, and unless RGIII is a bust, Cousins won't sniff the field for the Skins.

They've lost draft picks getting RG3, so they need to put guys around him when they can so they can win, and they put one of their highest picks for a back-up who should never see the field. Bad for Kirk too, because he isn't get drafted as a developmental back up, but a permanent one. Baffling.

I have to think they drafted Cousins with the hope of moving him for player(s) later down the line. I'm not 100% sure about the trade rules for draft selections in their first year, but I have to think that Washington has some ulterior motive to drafting two QBs this high in a single draft.

What if Cousins goes out and has a great preseason. Then they can trade him for a player in a position that they need. If all the talk of him being more "NFL ready" than RGIII is true this could be a good idea.

Interesting pairing in Washington with RG3 and Cousins. Very contrasting styles and as much as I hate to agree with Kiper I think that Kirk will be better in the pre-season then Griffin. Good guy to push RG3 to get to that next level quicker.

Molk and Hemingway are the two most likely to still get taken. Koger was a borderline guy, but he just had surgery to repair his Achilles, so that'll probably knock him out of the draft. Van Bergen is a borderline guy who's still out there.

Plus, I've read concerns that he's really good at certain types of blocking but not others (I totally lack the blocking expertise to know if that's true). So he's basically a guy who does a certain range of things really well, but lacks versatility.

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Molk can have trouble sustaining his blocks through the end of run plays. He often has to pull his man down with him to keep him out of the play and finds it difficult to generate enough push early to create a solid hole for his backs. He is reliable to not allow sacks in pass production but can get off balance when setting against bull rushes.

Think he's under the radar because he's from Temple. They say he's physical, athletic and capable of making good plays. Uncharacteristically, they don't say anything negative. (This is from their quick blurbs linked to them on the live draft tracker list.)

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And it's nice to have some depth at CB. Still scratching my head why they went for Broyles before getting the best available corner. Broyles may end up being a big steal though. Widely considered nation's best receiver before ACL tear.

If he's got one thing going for him it's that 2 of the only 3 D-III players drafted into the NFL that I can think of off the top of my head made an impact for the Lions. The two Lions being Pete Metzelaars and Clint Kriewaldt, with Pierre Garcon being the third.

I was just checking out the list of Big10 players still on the board, and I'm really surprised some of these guys are still around: Dennard, McNutt, Ebert (maybe not so surprising, actually), Cunningham, Herron, Moye, Henry. There's a lot of good, if not spectacular, talent from the Big10 lingering.

(I didn't include Molk or Hemingway, because I think we're all probably at least a little surprised those guys are still available.)

I didn't expect Hemingway to get taken before now, and Molk wasn't realistically projected much higher than this. He's small and he's been hurt for the evaluation period. We knew he was going to have to prove himself, again.

Dude was 50-3 in his career and 2 of those losses came from missed field goals while the other was a 1 point loss to TCU in the 2008 Poinsetta Bowl.

The NFL doesn't pick it's players by how many games they win. It has scientifically perfected it's rating system by using a combination of non-football agillity drills and strength measurements. Don't forget that important intelligence test.

I'm beginning to think Molk really rubbed people the wrong way with his little outburst after the bench press at the combine. Also, I can't believe Chris Polk still hasn't been drafted. He's been the best available for almost 2 rounds now.

that we don't know publicly. Great prospects drop for medical reasons. It's entirely possible that the doctors gave them do not draft grade. Molk has a history of injuries and the fact that he's not a real big C which also scares NFL teams.

Could be injuries that are keeping Molk off the board. I would have thought size issues wouldn't have been prohibitive in the later rounds. If nothing else, I hope Molk, Koger, and Hemingway get decent opportunities as free agents at least.

I forget where I read it, and I might even be making it up completely, but I swear I read someone saying, maybe it was an agent or maybe a player, that they'd rather they (or their client) be an undrafted FA than a 7th-round pick.